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India has largest livestock population in world. Livestock is one of the important economic activities especially in the rural areas of country providing income for most of the family. In dairy farming, feeding cost accounts about seventy percent of total operation cost. Even though dairying Programme have attained considerable importance in various Five Year Plans and the States and the Centre for the development of this sector have taken up several schemes/projects but different diet plan...
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Dr. Tim A McAllister
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Introduction The world population is expected to increase by ~2 billion, reaching 9.7 billion in 2050 (UN, 2019). Compared to 2012, this growth of the global population and affluence of emerging economies is predicted to promote a 40 to 55% increase in global demand for meat and dairy products by 2050 (FAO, 2018). Land resources available to expand production is limited, and there is increasing societal pressure to reduce the degradation of natural resources. In addition, animal...
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Luis Tedeschi
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
Introduction The United Nation’s sustainable development goals aim to “…achieve a better and more sustainable future for all” by addressing “…the global challenges we face, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice.” These challenges are interconnected and depend on integrating innovative ideas of several science fields to achieve sustainability, especially in livestock production...
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Laurine Faivre
Laurine Faivre and 1 more
Phileo by Lesaffre
Maxime Briche and Laurine Faivre from Phileo by Lesaffre, explain how Digescan™ provides a digestibility measurement indicator by combining the easy-to-use field tool and the performance of a digital tool ...
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INTRODUCTION Feed (ration) formulation is a technique by which different feed ingredients are combined to provide required nutrient to animals for a period of time, usually 24 hours, at different stages of production. A ration should supply all essential nutrients and energy to maintain vital physiological functions of growth, reproduction and health of animals. Ration should be palatable, digestible with permissible level of anti-nutritional...
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Nutritionists showed that overfeeding for 8 wk to nonpregnant, nonlactating cows increased adipose tissue mass in nonlactating dairy cows, with omental, mesenteric, and perirenal fat masses about twice as high; however, BCS at the end of the feeding period was not affected. Thus, cows with excessive...
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We’ve previously discussed high-shear dry extrusion of corn and how this process can be used to form highly-gelatinized starch that is quickly degraded in the rumen. Among other things, dry extruded corn has more available energy for productive purposes.  This means that more of the energy in corn, following dry...
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Wenli Li
USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
Wenli Li (US Dairy Forage Research Center) talks about using diets to manipulate rumen microbiome, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
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Dr. Derrick Moot
Lincoln University, New Zealand
Lincoln University, New Zealand
Introduction Lucerne is the main grazed forage of Argentina. However, there is a large yield and consumption gap on most dairy and beef farms. Jáuregui et al. (2019) indicated that < 5 t ha -1 are consumed on average on dairy farms. There is potential to close the gap by increased grazing frequency, particularly during periods of high growth such as spring (Jáuregui et al., 2022). However, the long-term effects of such management on lucerne persistence...
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Cecile Martin
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
Introduction The major challenge in livestock farming worldwide is to increase and improve production while limiting environmental impact and competition for resources for human consumption. Ruminants are key to food security as they convert forages, not directly usable by monogastric animals and humans, into animal products for human food. They supply 51% of all protein with respectively 67% and 33% from milk and meat (Gerber et al., 2013). However, ruminant livestock...
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Our solutions and programmes boost milk production and quality throughout the lactation cycle by prompting a better utilisation of nutrients. As a result, we help to ensure dairy farms are profitable and sustainable....
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Marcos Zenobi
Balchem Animal Nutrition
Balchem Animal Nutrition
INTRODUCTION Balchem now manufactures a high-quality, ruminally protected choline product called ReaShure®-XC Rumen Protected Choline, the next generation of ReaShure which provides bioavailable choline in a more concentrated product. Choline is an essential nutrient that enables cows to utilize the fat (NEFA) mobilized from body stores. The production of NEFA is the cows’ natural way of managing negative energy balance during the early stages of lactation and...
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Increasing the level of nutrition provided to dairy calves in the first weeks of life has resulted in several benefits such as decreased morbidity and mortality, faster recovery from disease, decreased age at first calving, improved mammary development, and increased milk production as an adult. What causes abomasal...
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